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Author
Series
By the book mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Don't miss the second installment of this gripping and funny bookish cozy mystery series by Tamara Berry! This case isn't just cold, it's practically frozen shut... In the aftermath of solving their first murder, bestselling author Tess Harrow and her teenage daughter Gertrude have decided to stay in Winthrop permanently. Now that they've made some updates to their cabin in the woods, they're turning to the family hardware store that Tess inherited...
82) Bloomsbury girls
Author
Language
English
Description
"Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls. Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one...
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English
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"A collection of lost books holds the clues to her family's legacy…and her future. Hope Sparrow has mastered the art of outrunning her tragic past, learning never to stay anywhere too long and never to allow anyone control over her life again. Coming to Wanishin Falls in search of her family's history already feels too risky. But somewhere in the towering stacks of this dusty old bookshop are the books that hold Hope's last ties to her late mother—and...
Author
Series
Dickens Junction mystery volume 1st
Publisher
Harrison Thurman Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"It's the holiday season in Dickens Junction, Oregon. Local bookstore owner Simon Alastair is getting ready for the community's annual celebration of Charles Dickens's well-known story. But when a mysterious stranger shows up in the Junction and is murdered hours later, Simon begins to suspect that his little community has been targeted for destruction by a shadowy organization. With the support of Zach, a dashing young magazine reporter, Simon decides...
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"Finding work is easy. Staying alive is a little bit harder. When Russ Wesley finds an unusual artifact in his grandfather's collection of rare antiquities, the last thing he expects is for it to draw the attention of a ferocious alien from a distant planet. Equally surprising is the adventurous team of intergalactic exterminators dispatched to deal with the alien threat. The exterminators specialize in "ecosystem preservation"--a thankless job that...
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bailey Briggs lives for Christmas music, baking cookies, snowy sleigh rides, and wearing her light-up reindeer ears to work at Winslow's bookstore. And this year, she's wishing for someone to kiss under the mistletoe. She's certain it isn't athlete Jacob Marley; Charlie and his British accent is the romantic lead of her dreams. Will Bailey stay on Santa's nice list, so that her wish will come true? -- adapted from back cover
Everything is lining...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
After the heartbreak of losing his girlfriend, Beck, Joe Goldberg thought he'd never love again. But when mysterious Amy Adam begins working for Joe at Mooney Books, he finds himself obsessed with his new employee. Amy is Beck's opposite, she hates Twitter, she doesn't even have an email address, she's completely unsearchable online, and she quickly captures Joe's heart. But just before Joe can ask Amy to marry him, she disappears, leaving a trail...
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English
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"Christmas is coming to the Western New York village of Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. Grandma Daisy and Violet's best friend, Sadie, go all out to make the nuptials the event of the season--whether Violet likes it or not. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the frigid Niagara River. Violet...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen, an imprint of Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Trey and Ariel embark on a hate-to-love journey when they band together to save Trey's family's business, the longest-running Black-owned bookshop in London.
Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family's beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel...
90) A fatal footnote
Author
Series
Open Book mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Writer-in-residence Penelope Parish will need to use every trick in her quaint British bookshop to unravel a murderous plot that threatens to ruin a ducal wedding. The wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Upper Chumley-on Stoke has all the makings of a fairy tale, complete with a glowing bride and horse-drawn carriage. But it wouldn't be much of a story without a villain, and as American Gothic novelist Penelope Parish is coming to learn, happy-ever-afters...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she's not at the library organizing events for readers, she's handcrafting book-themed jewelry and looking after her cranky cat. At times, her new life in the South still feels strange ... and that's before the discovery of the dead body in the bookstore. After one of her friends becomes a suspect, Marvey sets out to solve the murder mystery. She even convinces Spence,...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop--and, in a sense restart his life--in a small town on the shores of...
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English
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"When a killer stirs up trouble in the Outer Banks, amateur sleuth and bookseller Callie Padget is on the case, in a new beachside mystery from author Alicia Bessette. Cattail Island in the Outer Banks is a popular destination for honeymooners and nature lovers alike. So it is a huge blow when the murder of a newlywed grinds the pre-summer season to a screeching halt. Bookseller Callie Padget launches her own investigation, after mysterious customer...
94) Color me murder
Author
Series
Pen and ink volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"By day, Florrie Fox manages Color Me Read bookstore in Georgetown, Washington D.C. By night, she creates her own intricately detailed coloring books for adults, filling the pages with objects that catch her eye. There's plenty of inspiration in her new apartment--a beautiful carriage house belonging to Professor John Maxwell, Florrie's boss. He offers the property to Florrie rent-free with one condition--she must move in immediately to prevent his...
95) Night owls
Author
Series
Night owls (Lauren M. Roy) volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Valerie McTeague's business model is simple: provide the students of Edgewood College with a late-night study haven and stay as far away as possible from the underworld conflicts of her vampire brethren. She's experienced that life, and the price she paid was far too high for her to ever want to return. Elly Garrett hasn't known any life except that of fighting the supernatural beings known as Creeps or Jackals. But she always had her mentor and foster...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Identical twin sisters Alex and Hannah are the owners of Murder and Mayhem, a mystery bookshop that sells their famous poison-themed Killer Chocolates. But now, there's a real killer in their midst. Shortly before Christmas, their septuagenarian neighbor, Jane, confides to Alex that a murderer from a true-crime show has taken up residence in the village. Unfortunately, she's also shared her suspicions with town gossip Netta. The next morning, Alex...
Author
Series
Hometown brothers volume 3
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Running a bookstore on a quaint Chesapeake Bay island is Deena Clarks dream job. but the offer comes with a catch - helping Luis Dominguez figure out fatherhood. Distrustful of men, Deena had hoped the billionaire would agree to pay child support for her late friend's baby and let her continue raising Willow alone. Instead, he plans to move to Teaberry Island with Willow, and he wants Deena in tow as nanny. Ruthless in business, Luis has turned emotional...
98) Fateful words
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Fateful Words, the eighth Scottish Bookshop Mystery from beloved author Paige Shelton, bookseller Delaney Nichols stakes her reputation-and her life-when a literary tour turns deadly... When Edwin, Delaney's boss at the Cracked Spine bookstore, leaves town on secret business, Delaney is called upon to guide his yearly literary tour around Edinburgh. But on the first night of the tour, at the inn where the tour group is staying, the inn manager...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Undefeated by decades of rent increases and declining readership, Phil Cooper's secondhand bookstore finally succumbs to COVID-19 and he reluctantly decides to move the business online. In the newfound quiet of cybercommerce, he starts to suspect he's been smoking a little too much pot, listening to a little too much Grateful Dead, and may be overdue on sorting out who he is and what he's doing here, and where, in fact we might all be going. So he...
100) Book of dreams
Author
Publisher
Duet Interlude Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gaige's curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers a bookstore on an abandoned street. He steps inside and is immediately enthralled by its antiquarian sights and smells, but one book in particular calls to him. It isn't long before he gets a bad feeling about it, but it's already too late. The store's aged bookseller gives him no alternative; once he touches the book, it's his -- whether he wants it or not. It's bought and paid for, and there...
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